Associahedron, cyclohedron and permutohedron as compactifications of configuration spaces

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Authors Pascal Lambrechts, Victor Turchin, Ismar Volic

Publication date 13 July 2010

Published in Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society - Simon Stevin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0612591, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bbms/1274896208

zbMATH Keywords

associahedroncompactifications of configuration spacescyclohedronGoodwillie-Weiss manifold calculushomotopy limitknot spacespermutohedronpolytopes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Shapes (aspects of topological manifolds) (57N25)

Abstract: As in the case of the associahedron and cyclohedron, the permutohedron can also be defined as an appropriate compactification of a configuration space of points on an interval or on a circle. The construction of the compactification endows the permutohedron with a projection to the cyclohedron, and the cyclohedron with a projection to the associahedron. We show that the preimages of any point via these projections might not be homeomorphic to (a cell decomposition of) a disk, but are still contractible. We briefly explain an application of this result to the study of knot spaces from the point of view of the Goodwillie-Weiss manifold calculus.

Review text

It is well-known that associahedra and cyclohedra can be defined as compactifications of configuration spaces. The authors show how the permutohedron can also be defined as an appropriate compactification of a configuration space of points on an interval or on a circle. The construction of the compactification endows the permutohedron with a projection to the cyclohedron, and the cyclohedron with a projection to the associahedron. The authors show that the preimages of any point via these projections might not be homeomorphic to a disk, but are still contractible. They also briefly explain an application of this result to the study of knot spaces from the point of view of the Goodwillie-Weiss manifold calculus.

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